SpiderFarmer

John Michell, who has died aged 76, was an old Etonian who became the standard bearer for the romantic hippy mysticism with his 1969 book The View Over Atlantis, This posited the then original theory of a prehistorical global civilisation linked by leylines, and became extraordinarily popular and influential.
A hugely productive renaissance man, Michell published [...]

So, we had mockingbirds build a nest in the trumpet vines on our arbor.  Today, the eggs hatched, and we could hear the little “peep, peep!” of baby birds as the momma kept flying over there with various bits of bugs to feed them.
I got some pictures of momma, but the nest is about a [...]

From dead.atyourage.com, I’ve outlived:
D.H. Lawrence by about two weeks. He was a prolific author who wrote about the effects of modernity and is best known for his sensual novels. He died of tuberculosis on March 2, 1930. (Oddly enough, I’m rereading my D.H. Lawrence collection on Kindle right now.)
You’ve outlived Nicholas Rowe by three [...]